Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] bluetooth: hci_uart: add LL protocol serdev driver support

[Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 09:35 -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>> Turns out that the LL protocol and the TI-ST are the same thing
>> AFAICT.
>> The TI-ST adds firmware loading, GPIO control, and shared access for
>> NFC, FM radio, etc. For now, we're only implementing what is needed
>> for
>> BT. This mirrors other drivers like BCM and Intel, but uses the new
>> serdev bus.
>>
>> The firmware loading is greatly simplified by using existing
>> infrastructure to send commands. It may be a bit slower than the
>> original code using synchronous functions, but the real bottleneck is
>> likely doing firmware load at 115.2kbps.
>
> Is there no way to put the TI-specific stuff into a TI UART module
> rather than building it into the generic one?

In case it's not clear, all of HCI_LL is the TI specific part, not
just what I'm adding. So you are talking about putting each UART BT
protocol into a separate module. I'd assume that is doable, but seems
orthogonal to this patch set. I'd also assume there was some reason
that was not done already.

Rob